With speculation reaching fever pitch from the Pedernales to the Potomac, Texas Gov. Rick Perry says he’ll let us know whether he’s running for president of the United States “by the end of summer.”

“I wouldn’t get in if I didn’t have the stomach for it,” Perry said in an interview with conservative columnist Cal Thomas that appeared today in the Nashua (N.H.) Telegraph, a key newspaper in the first-in-the-nation primary state. “Running three times for governor of Texas, six times statewide, if I step in, they can bet it will be all-in. There will be plenty of vinegar and whatever else needs to be in the recipe.” …